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History of the Americas
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- thin, watery soup that the homeless received in soup kitchens
- was created to watch over the stock market and hopefully prevent another collapse.
- How many Mexican Americans were sent back to Mexico during the Great Depression and what percent were lawful American citizens
- built dams that controlled flooding and produced electricity
- provided workers with unemployment insurance, old age pensions, and insurance in case of early death.
- Newspapers used by the homeless to cover and keep warm outside.
- rejected the idea of government payments to the needy, and believed it would reduce the incentive to work
- People who feared society changed and had a goal to protect "American" values
- •Manufacture, Transport, and Sale of Alcohol illegalized
- What group of people struggled more than anyone else during the Great Depression
- banned teaching of evolution in Tennessee public schools
- the compromise of 1877 resulted in a win for hayes, republican. he became president instead of tilden the democrat, but the north had to promise the south:
- Which Act regarding civil rights BANNED the use of literacy tests in voting
- What were the laws that negatively affected Black people in the South and led to mass incarceration
- Which civil right act banned segregation from public facilities
- People bought stocks just because prices were rising without looking at companies sales and when the prices dropped lots of money was lost causing people to pull their money out of all thier stocksalso caused overinflated stock prices
- more people buying stocks on margin cause the prices to rise because lots of people wanted those stocks. Then people had to buy more on margin causing an infinite butterfly effect and they borrowed more money than they could pay offalso encourages selling
- overproduction- led to increased unemployment ratesbank failures- depositors lost almost all their moneystock market crash- set economy into paniclow interest rates- encouraged big loanshigh tariffs on foreign goods- led to not much trading internationallytoo much buying on creditlittle regulation on stock market and banks- allowed banks to put much of their depostiors money into the stock marketsteel, textile, and construction industries were down
- Instead of lending extra money to banks in trouble like they're supposed to, the federal reserve gave money to banks they thought wouldnt fail leaving all the depostiors in the failing banks to drown and they also raised interest rates during the depression instead of keeping them low to encourage spending
- the great depressionbanks failing people losing tons of money or going into huge debts